I just came back from the opening of The Maids by Scena Theatre at the Warehouse Theater. It’s an enormously stylish production, with a stunning set by Richard Montgomery, perfect costumes by Alisa Mandel, sound by Chris Piefer, and Marianne Meadows’ usually terrific lighting.

There’s alot of acting — as appropriate for the piece — brilliantly marshalled by the director Gabriele Jakobi. Jennifer Deal and Nanna Ingverson are riveting as the eponymous characters. Danielle Davy plays Madame with a sincere fabulousness that I have never seen in the role before. Not only was this the first all-female production of the show I’ve ever seen, but it’s the first one where the maids were significantly older than Madame providing an interesting tension.